Lourve Pre-WWII
Prep for the impending war at the Louvre
USS Block Island CVE 106 - F4U Corsair - 5 June 1945
USS Block Island (CVE 106), Marine Ordnance Man works on the .50 cal machine guns of a Vought F4U “Corsair”, on one of the ship’s elevators. Taken 5 June 1945, during operations off Okinawa.
Maiori, Sorrento Penninsula, Italy. September 19th 1943. © Robert Capa
Troina, Sicily, August 1943. © Robert Capa
A U.S. soldier stands in the middle of rubble in the Monument of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig after they attacked the city on April 18, 1945. The huge monument commemorating the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 was one of the last strongholds in the city to surrender. One hundred and fifty SS fanatics with ammunition and foodstuffs stored in the structure to last three months dug themselves in and were determined to hold out as long as their supplies. American First Army artillery eventually blasted the SS troops into surrender.
Flak bursts through the vapor trails from B-17 flying fortresses of the 15th air force during the attack on the rail yards at Graz, Austria, on March 3, 1945.
